As the next generation of video coding standard, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) aims to reduce 50% bit rates in comparison with previous video coding standards. In order to increase the Deblocking Filter (DBF) throughput, we propose a memory of ping-pong and interlacing VLSI architecture to prevent DBF from unnecessarily waiting for pixels in both vertical and horizontal, which only takes ...

Scene change detection plays an important role in a number of video applications, including video indexing, searching, browsing, semantic features extraction, and, in general, pre-processing and post-processing operations. Several scene change detection methods have been proposed in different coding standards. Most of them use fixed thresholds for the similarity metrics to determine if there wa...

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An efficient down/upsampling method to compress a depth map efficiently within the high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) framework is presented. A different edge-preserving depth upsampling method is proposed by using both the texture and depth information. We take into account the edge similarity between depth maps and their corresponding texture images as well as the structural similarity among...